Cui Dunli's face turned red when he heard these words, and he glared at Li Jing and said, "Wei Guogong, let these ignorant and foolish people insult the court officials, is this what you call a lecture meeting?"

Cui Dunli said that, and some ministers also looked at Li Jing with unkind expressions.

During the Tang Dynasty, officials paid more attention to the hierarchy between the government and the people than their officials after the Tang Dynasty.

In their eyes, no matter what mistakes the officials make, the common people cannot scold, and if they do, they will be rebellious.

Just like the emperor makes mistakes, and his courtiers can't scold, they can only advise.

Of course, some high-level and temperamental courtiers said that scolding the emperor was admonishment, and there were also some people.

But if such a person doesn't meet an open-minded emperor, it will generally not end well.

This kind of thinking was the whole idea of the entire upper class at that time, not one or two people who thought like this.

After Li Shimin said as the emperor, "water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn a ......boat", after hundreds of years of evolution, in the Song Dynasty, Confucianism still exalted Mencius, and many officials were the children of poor families who were admitted to the general examination, and the imperial court paid a little attention to public opinion from the heart.

Seeing this, Li Jing smiled and said, "You have listened, the people are insulting the rebellious criminals. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji smiled and took two steps forward: "Wuji has always admired Wei Guogong's exploits, and even more admired Wei Guogong's modest personality. Wuji remembered that Wei Guogong had always done more and said less when encountering things, but he was an honest elder, who seemed to be not good at words, and had the style of a former Han and ancient minister. ”

Li Jing heard that he knew that the eldest grandson Wuji would have no good words below, so he hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Uncle Changsun Guo praised it falsely!" ”

This is equivalent to the modern Chinese phrase "thank you for complimenting!" ”

One sentence almost didn't make the eldest grandson Wuji vomit blood, raised his head and glanced at Li Jing strangely, and said, "Wuji's words haven't been finished yet." ”

Li Jing pretended to be confused and said: "Today is to invite Your Majesty and hundreds of officials to listen to the words of the people, but you can't just listen to you praise the old decay." ”

"You!"

The eldest grandson stared angrily, looking at Li Jing speechless.

Li Shimin watched from the side, and a smile appeared on his face: "Wuji, let's listen to what the people have to say first!" ”

Let's go ahead first.

The eldest grandson Wuji glanced at Li Jing, who was smiling and groaning, snorted angrily and followed Li Shimin forward.

Li Jing continued to lead the way as if he didn't realize it, and the hundred officials behind him walked forward with different expressions.

As they walked inside, they were soon seen by the people who were talking, and the people who were near them stopped and looked at them curiously.

Li Shimin stopped the chamberlain and didn't let him report, and said to Li Jing: "Pharmacist, let him continue." ”

Li Jing took two steps forward and said to the crowd: "You continue to speak, and we will listen here." ”

The students of the Royal Military and Political Academy and the East Palace in the crowd were busy appeasing the people and continued, and the people turned around and continued to scold Fan Yang Lu, no longer looking this way.

Li Shimin and the civil and military officials stood in place, and saw a tattered old man holding a scarecrow in his hand nearby, trembling to the middle of the circle, and loudly said to the people in his circle: "We have heard in Guanzhong in the past that those scholars in Hebei Province are so good, and we don't want to be male thieves and female prostitutes.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been used as cattle and horses for generations, feeding them for many generations, and the women in the family still let them be harmed, but they say that they will blast out, and they will not give a grain of food, which is forcing people to death. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Liu Tou stopped, took a few breaths, and when his breath stabilized, he turned his head to look at the students of the Military and Political Academy who were presiding over their circle and said, "Old man, I am too far away from there to pee on their ancestral grave in person, this little brother helped me write the name of the ancestor of the Fanyang Lu family on this straw man."

I'm going to pour dung on this straw man and burn it again to quench the hatred in our hearts. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, there is Lao, this little brother write it quickly!"

"Old man Liu still has a way, just do it!"

……

The people in their small circle echoed Old Man Liu one after another, and urged the students of the Military and Political Academy to quickly write the name of the ancestor of the Fan Yang Lu family.

The children of the Fan Yang Lu family, who were standing behind the hundred officials and wearing linen and filial piety, were almost angry when they heard this, and they couldn't care about etiquette anymore.

"All ......"

They ran to the old man with all their might.

The person who ran at the front of the Lu clan was a man in his thirties, who ran in front of Old Man Liu without saying a word, and slammed his fist directly on Old Man Liu's front door, and Old Man Liu fell down tremblingly.

The Lu man still couldn't understand his hatred when he knocked down the old man Liu, raised his leg and kicked the old man Liu's head again, and roared loudly at those people: "Ignorant pariahs, you dare to insult my ancestors. ”

"Bang"

"Who gave you the courage to commit murder here?"

Seeing this, the students of the Military and Political Academy were furious, punched down the Lu man, glared at him and asked.

The other descendants of the Fan Yang Lu clan hurriedly stood in front of the man and roared loudly: "These untouchables insulted my ancestors, and they deserve to be killed!" ”

At this time, those people also stood up one after another, and they helped Old Man Liu up and surrounded several of the children of the Fan Yang Lu clan.

"You are also the animals of the Fan Yang Lu clan?"

The children of the Fan Yang Lu clan couldn't help but weaken when they saw their momentum, but they still said toughly: "The Fan Yang Lu clan has been in the prime minister for generations, how can you ignorant pariahs be humiliated." ”

Seeing this, the people around him hurriedly turned around and bowed to Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty—"

"Ahh

Before he could say the rest of the words, a few of them were overwhelmed by a hundred and ten Guanzhong men.

Seeing this, the eldest grandson Wuji shouted to a few guards who followed up: "Presumptuous! If you dare to commit murder in front of Your Majesty, pull them away. ”

Seeing this, Li Shimin smiled and signaled to the guards, and the guards hurriedly stepped forward to separate the people.

The guards separated the people from the children of the Fan Yang Lu clan, and several of the children of the Fan Yang Lu clan were all lying on the ground and couldn't get up, and they were carried down by the guards one by one.

"Your Majesty, these foolish people are really-"

When the eldest grandson Wuji said this, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere was wrong, and when he looked up, he saw Li Shimin's expressionless face, while Li Jing looked at him with a smile.

None of the hundred officials wanted to stand up and speak for Fan Yang Lu's family, although many of these ministers were not of high personal morality, but there were no great traitors.

In the face of surging public opinion, in the face of ironclad facts, they have not yet had the courage to stand up and quibble, not to mention that some of them still have to consider their own reputation in history.

The eldest grandson Wuji paused, and said to Li Shimin in a softened tone: "Your Majesty, the foolish people are ignorant, their words are not reliable, and this matter must be judged by Your Majesty." ”

Li Shimin looked at the eldest grandson Wuji and did not speak, but turned his head to look at Cui Dunli.

Cui Dunli was the highest-ranking official among the officials from the Hebei Taoist clan who were present.

"Cui Qing's family listened to the words of the people and saw the anger of the people, how did they feel?"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty—"

Cui Dunli bowed, but he couldn't speak.

Li Shimin didn't chase after him when he looked at him, but turned to look at Baiguan and said, "What do you think?"

No one made a sound, and the scene seemed very quiet, only in the distance there were people scolding Fan Yang Lu's voice loudly.

Li Shimin continued: "Listen, this is the voice of the people.

The evil deeds of the Fanyang Lu clan are notorious, and the people have dug up their ancestral graves, and you think that the ignorant and foolish people have gone too far.

But you have forgotten that there are more extreme things that the people have done in history.

Shang Tang and Zhou Wu were the courtiers of Xia Wei and Yin Xu, and Xia Wei and Yin Wei lost their way to Shang Tang and Zhou Wu to raise troops for revolution; Chen Sheng, Wu Guangqin's untouchables, the second lost their ways, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up; Emperor Yang has no way, and the world is full of beacons.

Xia Wei, Yin Xun, Qin II, and Emperor Yang of Sui are all in the supreme position, once they lose their morality and die and the country is destroyed, what is the dignity?

The Fanyang Lu clan has committed many crimes for generations, so why should the people dig up their ancestral graves?

When I saw this today, I began to realize the true meaning of controlling chaos, 'The monarch is also in the boat, and the common people are also in the water, and the water can carry the boat and overturn the boat.' 'The words of the latter saint do not deceive me.

Xia Wei, Yin Xuan, Qin II, and Emperor Yang of Sui are compared to the people of the world, they are boats, and the Taoist families of Hebei are compared to the people of Hebei Province, they are also boats. When they drove hundreds of thousands of people out of the country in order to make it difficult for them, their destruction was already doomed. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Li Jing bowed down convincingly.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Hundreds of officials shouted with the mountain.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The people who were alarmed let out a thunderous mountain cry under the leadership of the hosts.

Li Shimin laughed and said, "Flat! ”

After everyone straightened up, Li Shimin said heroically: "The inner government paid for the people who participated in the meeting today. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The people bowed again.

Li Shimin laughed and turned around and went back to the palace.

Li Shimin believes that this is his victory, and he will go down in history because of today's remarks.

……

……

Youzhou, Yandu City has begun to be built.

The people, cattle and horses were caught from the northern grasslands, and the grain was copied from the homes of the Taoist tribes in Hebei. So even though it was spring ploughing, no one thought it would not start.

With the cleaning up of the scholars in Hebei Province, the land of Youyan has become a blank sheet of paper for Li Chengqian to paint.

On a bright spring day, Li Chengqian began another round of inspections of the entire Hebei Province, which will be the starting point of the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty.

……

Unlike the bright spring in Youzhou, the rainy season in Chang'an City is coming.

The eldest grandson Wuji sat in the gloomy study, his face as cloudy as the sky at this time.

On the second day after returning from the Royal Military and Political Academy, the hundred officials of Chang'an City began to scramble to impeach Fan Yang Lu. In the end, even local officials and some local elites, especially those literati in the southeast, followed suit to impeach Fan Yang Lu.

Fan Yang Lu's family has been copied by Li Chengqian, what is there to impeach?

In the end, it was discovered that Chang'an City still had the relatives of the Fan Yang Lu family, so the stormy impeachment fell on the head of the eldest grandson Wuji.

The most unfortunate thing is that Li Shimin also believes that the eldest grandson Wuji is happy in Princess Changle's mansion, and his in-law Lu Chengsi is a disgraceful family that is disliked by God, which led to the early death of Princess Changle.

Li Shimin felt that the eldest grandson Wuji was blind, messed with relatives, and killed Princess Changle, so he dismissed all the officials on the eldest grandson Wuji in a fit of anger.

Now the eldest grandson Wuji is a common man.

The eldest grandson Wuji is now very afraid of following in Fang Xuanling's footsteps.

Fang Xuanling's family has been sent overseas and will never come back, and he doesn't want his family to die in a foreign country.

Therefore, the eldest grandson Wuji must find a way to regain his favor before Li Chengqian attacks him.